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I am Not Alone captures the energy and hopefulness of grassroots protest and direct action.

Synopsis

Click HERE to watch a Q&A with filmmakers Garin Hovannisian & Alec Mouhibian, and Rachel Denber, Deputy Director, Europe and Central Asia Division, Human Rights Watch
 

Film description: On Easter Sunday 2018, Nikol Pashinyan put on his backpack and started on a 120 mile walk across Armenia to protest President Serzh Sargsyan’s attempt to stay in power for a third term. Nikol’s solitary act of peaceful protest would mark the start of a 25-day revolution that inspired thousands of protesters across the country to peacefully join together with one clear demand: Serzh Sargsyan must go. With remarkable access to key players reaching the highest levels of government and with footage recorded by phone wielding protesters, I Am Not Alone captures the energy and hopefulness of grassroots protest and direct action. This emboldening “velvet revolution” started with one man who, standing firm in his belief that he was not alone, convinced a nation that it deserved more.

“I wanted to create a situation where it’s not the police knocking on the citizen’s door, but the citizen knocking on the doors of power."
- Nikol Pashinyan, I Am Not Alone

Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival, 2019
Winner, Audience Award, DOCNYC, 2019

UK Advisory (12A)

“I Am Not Alone shows how people are mobilised and thirsty for change. That it's always worth to fight, to never give up, even when it seems that all is lost.”

- Giorgi Gogia, Associate Director, Europe and Central Asia Division, Human Rights Watch

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Credits

Garin Hovannisian

Director

Garin Hovannisian is an Armenian-American writer and filmmaker. He graduated from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, and co-wrote and co-directed the feature film 1915 (15). I Am Not Alone (19) is his latest film.